Marbling With Watercolours

Use watercolors to create a marbled background effect.

Marbling with watercolours.

You simply press a piece of paper into shaving cream swirled with liquid watercolours and the colours and patterns are transferred to the paper making it look marbleized. Easy diy paper marbling at home materials. Read more below to see how it went and our tips and tricks for keeping this colorful art activity fun with minimal mess yes this can get messy. You can control the colors and how erratic you want the swirls and its amazing to then paint on top of or to use for mounting photos and such.

There are other creative ways to make beautiful pictures which the younger crowd is particularly impressed with. Watercolor paper was the perfect thickness and absorbed the inks beautifully. Thick white cardstock or watercolour paper ellen hutson letterpress cardstock used here water based dye inks distress inks in shades of green and grey used here. Historically all water based marbling was accomplished with watercolor or gouache paints formulated from natural pigments and binders.

Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours. One of the designs we made was marbling using shaving cream. Marbled watercolor and oil painting with kids materials. Examples do exist of cloth marbled with watercolor paints notably the cover of charles woolnaugh s 1853 book the art of marbling.

Watercolor paint watercolor paper we cut these sheets in half pipettes or droppers oil we used vegetable oil you ll also need a tray to contain spills plastic cups butcher paper or cloth to lay your paintings on and paper towels. The colors of the historical natural palette are subtle but pleasing. Watercolor marble by taheerah atchia. Generally when the activity of painting comes to mind we think of paintbrushes.

Ancient method of decorating paper.